Rollover crash shuts down Arborway in Boston

Several teenagers and an adult suffered life-threatening and critical injuries in a crash on the Arborway in Jamaica Plain Friday afternoon, Massachusetts State Police said.

Six people were taken to local hospitals, a spokesman for Boston EMS said. Four were in critical condition and two suffered severe injuries. Four of those injured were teens, ranging in age from 14 to 17.

"Preliminary reports indicate that an SUV carrying the teens rolled over and struck a pickup with two adults in the opposite lane," State Police said in a Twitter post.

"It was just mayhem. I could hear some screaming going on. People were rushing to the accident," said a witness who asked not to be identified.

Boston EMS said that at least two people had been ejected from the vehicles.

The teens were taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Medical Center and Children’s Hospital, with injuries ranging from relatively minor to life-threatening. The adults were taken to Brigham and Women’s Hospital, one of them with life-threatening injuries and the other expected to survive, the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said.

"I feel very shaken up. And I don't get shaken up easily. It was bad," said the witness.

The Arborway was closed between the Shea Rotary and Center Street, while State Police detectives investigated the crash.

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